Broadband Breakfast: Better Broadband, Better Lives

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2024 – A trade association representing 360 rural telecommunication companies on Monday urged the FCC to consider altering the general presumption of “technological neutrality.”
The group, Advocates for Rural Broadband and formerly known as the WTA, want to mitigate efforts to restrict Universal Service Fund-supported broadband on fiber-to-the-home technology....

February 8, 2024 – Legislation introduced Wednesday would make California the first state in the nation to codify the Federal Communication Commission’s newly adopted definition of digital discrimination into state law.
“Despite significant public investments aimed at bridging the digital gap, communities of color with low income continue to be disproportionately disconnected, left on the unfavorable side of the digital divide,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland...

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2024 –  The United States’s economy stands to lose up to $200 billion in benefits from global spectrum harmonization if certain actions are not taken, according to a report published by CTIA on Wednesday.
These benefits include up to $155 billion in economic benefits linked to U.S. leadership in a more harmonized global wireless ecosystem, including industry creation, job expansion, technology exports, and increased domestic innovation, according to the...

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday banned the use of artificial intelligence to clone human voices for generating robocalls.
The ruling extends the restrictions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to include current AI technologies capable of generating human voices under the category of “artificial or prerecorded voice.”...